How Rube Foster's Batting Average Compares to Similar Players

Rube Foster posted a career Batting Average of .215, below the league average of .262 — a level that fell short of typical league production. His best Batting Average season came in 1915, posting .277, above the league average of .251 that year. The lowest point came in 1913 at .095, well below the league average of .260 that year. Output was consistent through the final seasons. The figure moved from .277 in 1915 to .177 in 1916 and .268 in 1917. The consistent output characterized his final seasons. Significant season-to-season variance characterizes the Batting Average profile — ranging from .095 to .277 — though the career average fell below league norms.

Rube Foster Lifetime Batting Average and Similar Stats

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Rube Foster Batting Average Per Season

Rube Foster's Batting Average for each season of his MLB career, plotted against that year's league average. Switch between comparisons — American League, Hall of Fame, SP, North America, or players born in the same country — to see how he stacked up year by year.
Rube Foster Batting Average per season line chart

Rube Foster Batting Average by Team

Rube Foster's career Batting Average totals broken down by each team he played for, ordered by when he first joined that team.
Rube Foster career Batting Average by team bar chart

Rube Foster Batting Average Year-Over-Year Change

A waterfall chart tracking how Rube Foster's career Batting Average shifted from season to season. Each bar represents the change added to his career total that year, making peak and decline phases easy to spot.
Rube Foster Batting Average year-over-year waterfall chart

Rube Foster Batting Average Distribution vs. Comparable Players

Each box summarizes Rube Foster's seasonal Batting Average alongside a selected comparison group across all seasons he played. The box covers the middle 50% of seasons, the center line is the median, and the whiskers extend to the min and max. A tighter box means more consistency; a higher median means more output. Use the selector to switch comparison groups.
Rube Foster Batting Average distribution box chart versus comparable players

Rube Foster Batting Average — Season-by-Season Breakdown

Every season of Rube Foster's MLB career with Batting Average alongside league, Hall of Fame, positional, birth region, and country-of-birth averages for that year. Career totals include sum, average, min, max, and median.

Note: A dash (—) means no qualifying players existed in that comparison group for that season. Most commonly this happens for the Hall of Fame group.
Rube Foster Batting Average season-by-season breakdown table